The University of Rhode Island College of Nursing welcomes Assistant Professor Kate Healy to the college for the start of the fall 2022 semester. Learn about one of the College’s newest professors: Education: DNP, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions; MSN, University of Pennsylvania; BSN, University of Pennsylvania. Recent experience: Associate Director of Nursing, […]

URI College of Nursing professors continue to make significant impacts on health and health research, exemplified by the books, textbook chapters, scientific journal articles and more they have produced. Faculty members have been published dozens of times over the past year in a variety of publications. Check out a list of faculty publications over the […]

The B.S. in Nursing program makes impressive rise in ranks, slotting in at 67 The University of Rhode Island College of Nursing undergraduate program is now ranked among the top 10 percent of nursing colleges in the country, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings. The College’s B.S. in Nursing program is […]

Dean Barbara Wolfe and the faculty of the URI College of Nursing welcomed the Class of 2025 into the nursing profession during the semi-annual White Coat Ceremony Tuesday morning in Edwards Auditorium. Students crossed the stage to receive their white lab coats, then recited a pledge to uphold the ethics and principles of the nursing […]

URI nursing students Rebecca Allder and Katherine Fitzmaurice completed the eight-week internship program at HopeHealth in Providence Two University of Rhode Island College of Nursing students have enhanced their expertise in palliative care and contributed to palliative care knowledge through their research projects, as the inaugural participants in the Susan D. Flynn Palliative Care Undergraduate […]

URI College of Nursing Professor Susan Desanto-Madeya’s major federally-funded study aims to find path over barriers to equitable care About 12 million adults in the United States are living with serious illness that carries a high risk of mortality and puts great strain on family caregivers. That strain is exacerbated in cultural-minority families facing inequities […]

Melissa Sosa, first generation American and college student, already employed in neuro ICU In 2010, Melissa Sosa was a 10-year-old girl going to grade school in Providence, playing softball and volleyball with her friends, and just generally being a kid. Then her mother, Alba Vasquez, was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. It was a […]

Dean Barbara Wolfe, joined by URI President Marc Parlange and the faculty and staff of the College of Nursing, conferred degrees upon the graduating class of 2022 on May 21. Dean Wolfe and the entire College of Nursing extend their heartfelt congratulations to the URI College of Nursing Class of 2022. Check out a gallery […]

Katie Fitzmaurice and Becca Allder will enhance palliative care skills in new Fellowship Two University of Rhode Island College of Nursing students will become experts in palliative care as the inaugural participants in the Susan D. Flynn Palliative Care Undergraduate Fellowship. Nursing students Katie Fitzmaurice and Becca Allder will enhance their “core palliative care clinical […]

Program is 45th in the country, an impressive rise in the ranks; Doctor of Nursing Practice program among top 80 nationally The University of Rhode Island College of Nursing master’s degree program, already among the best in the country, has risen again in the national rankings, moving into the top 50 in the country, according […]